Step 1: To generate a few ideas for your paper, ask questions about the text:
- How does guilt transform Lady Macbeth?
- Is Macbeth a protagonist or an antagonist?
- In Macbeth, how does Shakespeare use Lady Macbeth as a character?
Step 2: Determine themes or important ideas that are raised by the text.
- Guilt can have an inevitable emotional and physical impact on people.
- External influence can be detrimental.
- Too much power and ambition can result of corruption.
- What had been done cannot be undone.
Step 3: State how the theme or idea is evident in the text (state your thesis).
- Comparing the ambitious and confident Lady Macbeth to the fearful and paranoiac person she had become, guilt can affect people to deteriorate.
- If Macbeth had not listened to the Witches’ prophecies, he would have stayed as a loyal and nobel thane with satisfaction.
- Macbeth killing King Duncan and other characters made guilt to permeate into Macbeth’s mind perpetually.
- How does guilt transform Lady Macbeth?
- Is Macbeth a protagonist or an antagonist?
- In Macbeth, how does Shakespeare use Lady Macbeth as a character?
Step 2: Determine themes or important ideas that are raised by the text.
- Guilt can have an inevitable emotional and physical impact on people.
- External influence can be detrimental.
- Too much power and ambition can result of corruption.
- What had been done cannot be undone.
Step 3: State how the theme or idea is evident in the text (state your thesis).
- Comparing the ambitious and confident Lady Macbeth to the fearful and paranoiac person she had become, guilt can affect people to deteriorate.
- If Macbeth had not listened to the Witches’ prophecies, he would have stayed as a loyal and nobel thane with satisfaction.
- Macbeth killing King Duncan and other characters made guilt to permeate into Macbeth’s mind perpetually.